In the situation in question, this is how I see it:
Hemispheres: Games and Forums; the focus for this thread will be on Forums. Continents within Forums: Each forum could be considered a continent. Countries: If every thread was a country, there would be too many of them. Instead, I would think of each page as a country. States and everything within them: Each thread would then be a state, with each post being a city/town.
If each post is a city/town, then there'd be... A lot of them... (Thread Locked) The state/province would be closed down/blocked from growth/disbanded?